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' @uiten tstesgetest @ffice Letters Patent No. 80,825, dated August 1l, 1868.

IMPROVE!) BASKET.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY GONCERN B e it known that I HORACE C. JONES, of Dowagiac, in the county of Cass, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Manufacture of Stavo-Baskets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawf; ings, making a part of this ,speciiicat-ion, in-which- V Figure 1 is a diametric'al section through the improved basket.

Figure 2 is atopview-oi' .the basket. Y v

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts in thetwoiigures.

Thisinvention relatesto a new andrimproved mode of constructing splint or stave-baskets, designed for the transportation of fruit and other articles, v'whereby baskets of this material can be made much stronger, more compact, and durable, than heretofore,

The nature of my invention consist s' in constructing a basket of two thicknesses of staves or splints, the outer thickness or covering being composed of splints which extend fromside to side of the basket, beneath its bottom, and the inner thickness or lining being composed of splints whichextend from the centre of the Vbottom of the basket toits top edge, s'aid two thicknesses of splints being securedbetweeu and held in 4place by means of loops placed inside and outside of the basket, as will be hereinafter explained:

My invention further consists in the application of the cap-'and-rivet fastening tothe tapering points of the lining splints, liorffastening'the same down tothe outside splints, as hercinafterilescribed.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, a a represent 'thin narrow splints, which are made ofl suicient length to extend from the upper edge or brim of the basket onone side, beneathfthe bottom of the basket, to the brim on, the opposite side, as indicated by the sectional figure of the drawings.k

These splints a. a are crossed in the middle of the bottom ofthe basket in suiiicient number to form, when their en ds are all drawn togetherin a circular man'ner,'the outer thicknessiof the basket. It will be seen, by referenceto fig. 1, that the crossing of thesplints at the bottom of the basket makes a number of thicknesses,

and renders the basket very strong and durable at this point. As thesesplints a rise from the bottom of the basket, the number of thicknesses gradually diminishes, until, nally, the brim or upper edge of the basket has but one thickness of these outer splints a.

The basket is then lined with splin'ts b, which are applied soasjto break joints with-the joints of the` outer splints, and to extend from the centre ofthe bottoni of the basket up to the brim orupper edge thereof, as shown in gs; 1 and 2. In order to have the edges of these splints b, atand near their lower ends, t snugly together, and form a neat and compact lining for the basket, I taper them to points, as shown iri*g.` 2, and conine thesepOinted ends by means of a metallic cap, it, and a rivet, g, which latter is passed through the cap, ft, througnithe splints a a, and riveted, as shown ,in fig. 1. 4

-Thc two thicknesses ofsplints are nowsecnred together in their proper places by means of two'hoops, c'c," forming tbetop edge or brim'of the basket, through which rivets eZ are pas-sed, and rmlyclinched on the inside; also, by means of two hoops, Ve e', riveted on the inside and outside of the basket, between its upper edge and its bottom; andalso by means of two hoops,`ff, riveted on the inside and outside of the basket at its bottom. The handles B B are then applied to thc basket in any suitable well-known manner.

I do not claim under this patent, independently of theV inner and outer set of staves or splints, the use of inner and 'outer hoops, northe cap-and-rivetfastenin'g, in any other connection than the one shown; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp 'I 1. Constructing a basket of two thicknesses of lstaves or splints, the outer thickness or covering being `composed of splints which extend from side to side of the basket, beneathits bottom, and the inner thickness or lining being composed ofV splints which extend from the centre of thc bottom of the basket to its top edge, substantially as described. 2. The cap lz, and rivet y, fastening the tapering. points of the lining-splints Z5 downto the splints a, form ing the outer. thickness of the'basket, substantially as described.

' I HORACE C. JONES.

' Witnesses;

Enoes C. BowLINe, PETER Hanan. 

